CEI - Lights ON for Earth Hour - Celebrate Human Achievement Hour!

"Earth Hour" is coming up this Saturday evening, and you may have noticed certain businesses, celebrities, and environmental groups urging "lights out" for an hour, ostensibly to call attention to global warming.  You may think this sends the wrong message - to plunge us all into darkness as a rejection of technology and human achievement.  We sure thought so.  Or, as my colleague Michelle Minton and others have aptly noted, it's Earth Hour every day in Communist North Korea, where people lack basic freedoms, as well as affordable, reliable access to many human achievements, such as electricity. 

 

Good news is, there's now an alternative to Earth Hour - it's called Human Achievement Hour!  A celebration of all that humans have accomplished.  What can you do to participate?

• In honor of HAH, leave your lights on, Saturday, March 27, at 8:30pm! 
• Tweet or blog about it, and let us know about how you observed that hour. (#HAH2010).
• Follow HAH on Twitter, Twitter.com/hah_2010
• Join HAH on Facebook
• If you're in the Washington, DC area, join us for a cocktail hour celebrating HAH.
• Read Michelle Minton's commentaries on specific human achievements, on Openmarket.org

Happy Human Achievement Hour!



Comments

[Jim Splaine]

Turning off your lights for an hour saves money. I thought conservatives were in favor of saving their money? It also saves money for the government -- towns, cities, (school districts), states -- and even the federal government that so many conservatives seem to want to abandon.

So, lighten up, pun intended -- turn off your lights for an hour. Call it "Dollar Hour" and rest easier. You'll have a bit more clang in your pocket after your next power bill.

[Dave Jarvis]

I wouldn't tout human achievement here because I am pretty sure Edison would call this line of reasoning idiotic

[Ryan Tower]

Im pretty sure Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the current that we use today, would say Edison is a fool.

Global Warming is a Lie.

Solar Maximum every 11 years.

2012 is year 11. Sun is more active then ever in history, causing an increase in earths temperature. Common sense science.

[Dave Jarvis]

makes perfect sense to me. So every six years we get an ice age?